The U.S. government calculates the country's official time using more than a dozen atomic clocks at a federal facility northwest of Denver.
But when a destructive windstorm knocked out power to the … [+2329 chars]
How a power outage in Colorado caused U.S. official time be 4.8 microseconds off - NPR
Officials said the error is likely be too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals.
By:Joe Hernandez
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